Slovenia News 13 September 2005

Croatia's informal proposal for Slovenia and Croatia to resort to international arbitration on their outstanding border problems likely made the majority of headlines last week. Another focus was on the ever more heated campaign ahead of the 25 Sept referendum on the public broadcaster act. Internationally, OSCE chairman Dimitrij Rupel travelled to Azerbaijan and Armenia in a bid to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and returned fairly optimistic from the region. Croatian PM Ivo Sanader said on Tuesday, 6 Sept, that since Slovenia and Croatia had not solved the border issue over the past 15 years, the time had come for international arbitration. More » As the 25 Sept referendum on the new government-sponsored act on RTV Slovenija is ever closer, heated debates about its pros and cons could be witnessed, yet with no new insights. More » FM Dimitrij Rupel visited as OSCE chairman-in-office Azerbaijan and Armenia to facilitate a solution to the conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh, an independence-seeking enclave located in Azerbaijan, but populated mainly by Armenians. More » Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek is to be among more than 170 heads of state from around the world taking part in the UN General Assembly that will get underway on Wednesday in New York. More » The chair of the government reform group, economist Joze P. Damijan, has said the cornerstone of the group's proposal, to be unveiled at the end of the month, will be flat tax and privatisation of state-owned companies. More » The government has amended the indicative programme for the Schengen Facility for the 2004-2006 period and authorised the Government Office for European Affairs (SVEZ) to harmonise the amendments with the European Commission. More » Slovenia will send SIT 23m (US$ 120,000) worth of aid to the United States to help the victims of hurricane Katrina, the government decided on Thursday. More » Slovenia's gross domestic product (GDP) accelerated to 5.2% in real terms in Q2 over the same period last year, up from 2.6% in the first quarter. Growth was buoyed in particular by surging exports and domestic expenditure, Slovenia's Statistical Office reported on Friday. More » The majority of Slovenians believe that their country gained by entering the EU, the results of the spring Eurobarometer Poll 2005 showed on Friday. More » Slovenia places 26th in this year's human development report of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), up one place over 2004. Moreover, it was placed among the countries with the highest human development rate. More » European food and veterinary inspectors established during a five-day visit to Slovenia that the country's plant passport requirements system was functioning well, head of the National Phytosanitary Administration Katarina Groznik told public broadcaster Radio Slovenija on Friday. More » In a recent Eurostat survey on Europeans, science and technology, Slovenians proved that they have a good command of the subject, taking seventh place among 32 European countries, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Jure Zupan told the press on Tuesday. More » The 2005 Vilenica Award, the international award for literature, was conferred on the authors Ilma Rakusa in Karl-Markus Gauss at a ceremony in the cave of the same name on Saturday evening. This year the jury selected two winners to celebrate 20 years of the Vilenica International Literature Festival. More » Slovenia's Urska Zolnir and Rasa Sraka have won bronze in their respective categories at the Judo World Championships in Cairo. More »

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